debilitar
/dɨ.bɨ.li.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“debilitar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,485 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,485
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - enfraquecer
Corpus desk
Index PT-debilitar · debilitar · Portuguese
debilitar · rank #85,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,485
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desarmonia
Nearest frequency peer: desarmonia (+6 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “debilitar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cântaro
cântaro
14,524 corpus weight
- debilitar
debilitar
14,516 corpus weight
- desarmonia
desarmonia
14,510 corpus weight
- desarrumar
desarrumar
14,509 corpus weight
- desconcentr…
desconcentrar
14,507 corpus weight
- desembocar
desembocar
14,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “debilitar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | debilitar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.bɨ.li.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “debilitar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
debilitar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,485 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨ.bɨ.li.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
debilitar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is debilitar, spelled D-E-B-I-L-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1enfraquecer
- 2abater
- 3tornar débil
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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